We celebrated the European Year of Cultural Heritage last night with VR technologies that are transforming our interaction and understanding of our cultural heritage. #EuropeforCulture#VR#VirtualDutchmen

In the cultural heritage world- we’ve been digitizing ancient materials for a while now, but not only that, we’re also part of AI, VR, AR - new realities, new ways of connecting with our ancestors’ achievements. Check out the work of Europeana Foundation, The Virtual Dutchmen, and The World Digital Library. On the first photo you see John Van Oudenaren speak, he gave one interesting example of the work they do, i.e. virtual repatriation: the Florentine Codex is a core document of Mexican culture but the document is in Italy. On the world digital library’s website however you can view high resolution pictures of it. To this day the document has been viewed 3 million times by people from within Mexico.
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